Italy: Playoffs start today - who were the best players of regular season?

Unlike last season, in which whoever won the individual standings did so with a good gap in most cases, this year it was necessary to wait for the results of the last Round, played a week ago, to determine the best players of the Superlega regular season.

The most striking case is that of the ranking of winning serves, won by Yuri Romanò (Gas Sales BluEnergy Piacenza) with 45 aces: only one more than Noumory Keita (WithU Verona), and this was only thanks to the 6 aces made in the last round against Padova, while (strangely), against Cisterna the number 9 from Verona didn’t score even one, thus suffering a sensational overtaking. In third place Tommaso Rinaldi in Modena’s jersey with 39.

The strong outside hitter from Verona, however, is the best in the ranking of the best percentage of effectiveness in attack, won with 56.30% (thanks also to the 63% recorded in the last match).
Second place for Wilfredo Leon from Sir Safety Susa Perugia with 55.96%, third for another player from Verona, the Russian giant Maksim Sapozhkov, with 53.95%.

Great balance also in the ranking of blocks, and in the end the winners, with 53 monster blocks each, are two: Marko Podrascanin from Itas Trentino and Aidan Zingel from Top Volley Cisterna. The latter, before the last match was firmly to the top, but against Verona he made only one block, thus letting the middle blocker from Trento reach him, who instead made 3 against Modena.
They are followed by another duo, paired at 47, Robertlandy Simon from Piacenza and Gianluca Galassi from Vero Volley Monza.

On the other hand, the ranking relating to reception is without history, dominated again this year by the outside hitter from Perugia Oleh Plotnytskyi, with a weighted average of 5.90.
Behind him Ran Takahashi from Pallavolo Padova with 5.77, third placed the other outside-hitter from Perugia, Kamil Semeniuk, with 5.69.

Finally the top of the top, the top scorers of regular seasons, won by Adis Lagumdzija of Valsa Group Modena with 419 points, 10 more than Petar Dirlic of Cisterna (409) and 47 more than the third classified, the veteran and unsinkable Matey Kaziyski from Trento (372), decisive in most matches.

About team numbers, Itas Trentino is the one that has grounded the most balls (1,491), made the most winning attacks (1,135) and also winning blocks (211), Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza the team who played the most sets of all (88) and scored the highest number of aces (164, one more than Perugia), Sir Safety Susa Perugia won the most break points (593) and, lastly, Valsa Group Modena the one that recorded the highest number of perfect receptions (400).

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And now a little bit individuality:

The best setters, according to the number of winning points, are:
1# Antoine Brizard (Piacenza) – 80 points – 23 blocks – 19 aces – 51,4% in attack
2# Simone Giannelli (Perugia) – 68 points – 21 blocks – 10 aces – 56,1% in attack
3# Bruno Mossa de Rezende (Modena) – 50 points – 9 blocks – 19 aces – 68,7% in attack
4# Paolo Porro (Milano) – 45 points – 12 blocks – 25 aces – 28.6% in attack
5# Riccardo Sbertoli (Trento) – 44 points – 24 blocks – 13 aces – 43,7% in attack
6# Luciano De Cecco (Civitanova) – 43 points – 17 blocks – 13 aces – 56,5% in attack
7# Luca Spirito (Verona) – 39 points – 19 blocks – 10 aces – 38,5% in attack
8# Michele Baranowicz (Cisterna) – 32 points – 13 blocks – 15 aces – 23,5% in attack
9# Davide Saitta (Padova) – 31 points – 16 blocks – 4 aces – 46,2% in attack
10# Marco Falaschi (Taranto) – 29 points – 7 blocks – 10 aces – 52,2% in attack

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The best outside hitters, according to the number of winning points, are:
1# Matey Kaziyski (Trento) – 372 points – 25 blocks – 33 aces – 50,9% in attack
2# Noumory Keita (Verona) – 337 points – 16 blocks – 44 aces – 56,3% in attack
3# Alessandro Michieletto (Trento) – 336 points – 31 blocks – 32 aces – 47,5% in attack
4# Stephen Maar (Monza) – 331 points – 31 blocks – 30 aces – 47,7% in attack
5# Rok Mozič (Verona) – 324 points – 34 blocks – 19 aces – 50% in attack
6# Vlad Davyskiba (Monza) – 301 points – 28 blocks – 38 aces – 49,1% in attack
7# Daniele Lavia (Trento) – 300 points – 23 blocks – 14 aces – 46,9% in attack
8# Ran Takahashi (Padova) – 300 points – 16 blocks – 23 aces – 50,4% in attack
9# Marko Sedlaček (Cisterna) – 295 points – 34 blocks – 17 aces – 44,9% in attack
10# Earvin Ngapeth (Modena) – 286 points – 15 blocks – 24 aces – 44,8% in attack

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The best opposites, according to the number of winning points, are:
1# Adis Lagumdzija (Piacenza) – 419 points – 28 blocks – 34 aces – 49,1% in attack
2# Petar Dirlic (Cisterna) – 409 points – 37 blocks – 10 aces – 47,4% in attack
3# Maksim Sapozhkov (Verona) – 367 points – 35 blocks – 25 aces – 54% in attack
4# Dusan Petkovic (Padova) – 354 points – 12 blocks – 33 aces – 43,3% in attack
5# Yuri Romanò (Piacenza) – 345 points – 15 blocks – 45 aces – 46,4% in attack
6# Jean Patry (Milano) – 312 points – 24 blocks – 16 aces – 43,8% in attack
7# Georg Grozer (Monza) – 273 points – 24 blocks – 21 aces – 47,4% in attack
8# Ivan Zaytsev (Civitanova) – 243 points – 19 blocks – 18 aces – 48,1% in attack
9# Giulio Pinali (Siena) – 221 points – 13 blocks – 13 aces – 41,1% in attack
10# Kamil Rychlicki (Perugia) – 219 points – 18 blocks – 16 aces – 53,8% in attack

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The best middle blockers, according to the number of winning points, are:
1# Robertlandy Simon (Piacenza) – 210 points – 47 blocks – 31 aces – 59,2% in attack
2# Gianluca Galassi (Monza) – 178 points – 47 blocks – 14 aces – 56%% in attack
3# Barthelemy Chinenyeze (Civitanova) – 170 points – 25 blocks – 2 aces – 65,6% in attack
4# Marko Podrascanin (Trento) – 169 points – 53 blocks – 14 aces – 59,6% in attack
5# Srecko Lisinac (Trento) – 166 points – 41 blocks – 20 aces – 62,9% in attack
6# Agustin Loser (Milano) – 151 points – 41 blocks – 13 aces – 55,7% in attack
7# Dragan Stankovic (Modena) – 144 points – 45 blocks – 8 aces – 55,4% in attack
8# Aidan Zingel (Cisterna) – 140 points – 53 blocks – 10 aces – 56,6% in attack
9# Marco Vitelli (Milano) – 135 points – 28 blocks – 11 aces – 65,8% in attack
10# Daniele Mazzone (Siena) – 131 points – 42 blocks – 8 aces – 46,8% in attack

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The best liberos, according to the number of perfect receptions, are:
1# Salvatore Rossini (Modena) – 149 perfect receptions – 30,6%
2# Federico Bonami (Siena) – 129 perfect receptions – 27,1%
3# Julian Zenger (Padova) – 123 perfect receptions – 24,8%
4# Marco Gaggini (Verona) – 118 perfect receptions – 26,7%
5# Leonardo Scanferla (Piacenza) – 102 perfect receptions – 22,75%
6# Gabriele Laurenzano (Trento) – 98 perfect receptions – 22,06%
7# Fabio Balaso (Civitanova) – 92 perfect receptions – 25,14%
8# Nicola Pesaresi (Milano) – 83 perfect receptions – 17,77%
9# Marco Rizzo (Taranto) – 73 perfect receptions – 20,22%
10# Massimo Colaci (Perugia) – 61 perfect receptions – 29,12%